While the Doctor has gone through many adventures in time and space, being [[LongRunner the longest running Science-Fiction show ever created]] means that there's bound to be [[DarthWiki/DethroningMomentOfSuck some moments]] that people want erased from history.

Keep in mind:* Sign your entries* One moment per show to a troper, if multiple entries are signed to the same troper the more recent one will be cut.* Moments only, no "just everything he said, " "The entire show, " or "This entire season, " entries.* No contesting entries. This is subjective, the entry is their opinion.* No natter. As above, anything contesting an entry will be cut, and anything that's just contributing more can be made its own entry.* Explain ''why'' it's a Dethroning Moment Of Suck.* No RealLife examples, including ExecutiveMeddling. That is just asking for trouble.* No ASSCAPS, no bold, and no italics unless it's the title of a work. We are not yelling the [=DMoSs=] out loud.

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* @/{{Metz77}}: Peri in general is a dethroning character, but her absolute worst moment is in her debut episode, "Planet of Fire", when Nicola Bryant, struggling to make her American accent sound even '' slightly'' convincing, attempts to be defiant at the Master with the line "I'm Perpugilliam Brown and I can shout just as loud as you can." Instead of sounding defiant and confident, it comes out shakier than a bobblehead in an earthquake. * @/{{Sceptre}}: "The Twin Dilemma". Strangling the companion is not the best way to present a new Doctor to the world. It pretty much killed the show for twenty years. And the plot is so bad the novelization is a thousand times better, in a world where the reverse tends to happen.* @/{{bazer63}}: The TV Movie. "I'm half human, on my mothers side." THAT LINE. It makes me cry, and wonder if the writers actually watched doctor who beforehand. It makes me cringe so badly, it is the reason for the otherwise ok TV movie to be near-universally loathed by the fandom. Why you do this America?

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* @/{{Ecclytennysmithylove}}: I sometimes tolerate New Series episodes that other fans have negative views on (specifically “Love and Monsters” and Fear Her”, those two episodes that I don’t really find that bad). But if I can think of one episode that nearly stopped me from watching the New Series, it would be “Father’s Day”. I know what the episode writer, Paul Cornell (his written two-parter, “Human Nature” and “The Family of Blood”, were actually great), was trying to expand the rules of the space-time continuum (i.e. Reapers), but still, [[CanonDiscontinuity none of the established rules ever came back after that episode.]] What even pissed me the most was the [[JerkAss Ninth Doctor calling Rose a 'stupid ape' for saving her father from the accident,]] [[FreudianExcuse even though she did it because she wanted to get to know her father]]. I'm sorry, but as a victim of emotional abuse, that nearly made me lost my sympathy for the Ninth Doctor when [[spoiler: he regenerated]]!* @/GentlemensDame883: At the risk of earning the ire of Nine fans, I found his chickening out of destroying both the Daleks and Earth in "Parting of the Ways", given his previously established Badassitude in taking Van Statten's gun to use against the Dalek and not flinching from Margaret Blaine's attempted shaming of Team TARDIS in "Boom Town", to be one of these.* @/{{Rushi}}: "The Christmas Invasion". If Harriet Jones is supposed to bring a Golden Age to Britain, I believe that Ten should have let her do it. Or the Reapers should have shown up and screw him and Rose over for messing up the timeline or something.* @/{{MrThorfan64}}: I was doing "Journey To The Center Of The Tardis" and hope someone will put it back but I am now going to add "Tooth and Claw". The behaviour of Rose, the [[DesignatedHero "perfect companion"]]. People are getting torn to pieces by a werewolf. And what does Rose do? She keeps trying to win a stupid bet with the Doctor that she can get Victoria to say she isn't amused. [[FlatWhat What]]. This isn't the time Rose! Her and 10 come across as unbearable here, seeming to [[NightmareFetishist enjoy the horrible stuff]] that's going on. It's not surprising Victoria banishes, from her perspective, these terrible people. Rose and 10 are thought by many as the best TARDIS team but this episode demonstrates what jerks they are. Thank Eru and Dionysus Rose left at the end of the Series. That was when 10's era became better.* [=InTheGallbladder=]: I think I'll step up to the plate and add "Love And Monsters" to the list. Lazy writing, lots of padding, shoddy humor and a mountain of stupidity all steadily accumulated over the course of the episode, to the point where they were practically unignorable. But the fun doesn't truly begin until the villain is revealed to be a complete ripoff of [[AustinPowers Fat Bastard]], to the point of even having a similar-sounding accent. It's at this point that Ursula is reduced to a disembodied face that protrudes out of things. She's then robbed of her dignity, leading into the reveal that she will spend eternity a talking paving slab. [[EsotericHappyEnding This is considered a happy ending.]]** Jarxon6: That was all minor, to me at least, compared to the EPIC derailing of both Rose and the Doctor. There's this big monster, threatening to absorb someone, several innocents trapped in an AndIMustScream situation, and the doctor has a more or less instant solution. So, what does the Doctor do? Stands back and watches Rose bitch out the guy for a fairly minor thing, thus making it impossible to free the people trapped. Let me repeat this: our heroes condemn innocent people to AFateWorseThanDeath so Rose can complain.*** {{WickedIcon}}: Ursula's fate is bad enough, but you know what makes it even worse? The following lines:-->'''Elton:''' We've even got a bit of a love life.\\'''Ursula:''' Oh, let's not go into that.* @/romanatorX: Almost everything about "Fear Her" was an embarrassment to the series, from the bad acting to the idiot balls. I would nominate the childish aesop about "Love conquers all" to be the episode's nadir, but no. The ultimate low point for the entire franchise is the drawing of Chloe's abusive dad being turned back to life. So how do they defeat him? Chloe and her mother... sing him away. Yes, you heard that right. They sing a living being away. That is so childish that it is actually insulting to the millions of fans who practically begged the BBC to bring back ''Series/DoctorWho'' for so many years. And even if it wasn't prodding to the youngest demographic, you could tell that the writers, when coming up for an ending to this episode, [[TheyJustDidntCare threw their hands up in the air and said "We don't give a damn!"]] Give me the charm (mediocre special effects, SoBadItsGood acting) of the old series over this childish excuse of a ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode any day.* NCZ: "Last of the Time Lords". When all hope is lost and the heroes (and writer) have been backed into an inescapable corner, [[TastesLikeDiabetes Martha gets everyone in the world to say the word, "Doctor" at the exact same time,]] which transforms The Doctor into Jesus and allows him to defeat The Master. It's ludicrously cheesy and a DeusExMachina at its finest. And to top it all off, we get a ResetButton ending, and The Master comes back anyway.** Calamity2007: Also the reveal that the Toclafane are [[spoiler: the future of humanity, who in an effort to escape the death of the universe, turned themselves into cyborg creatures, with minds of children, that cannibalize and kill each other for fun]]. That's right, in one simple reveal, RTD managed to make any optimistic speech about the human race moot, since apparently [[spoiler: we are all doomed to become psychopathic man-children no matter what]]. Just feels like the only reason the plot twist was even included was to just make The Master look more evil for using them.* Tropers/{{Larkmarn}}: As much as I disliked Donna (... which is a lot, by the way) the titular girl in "The Doctor's Daughter". Now, not only do I take issue with introducing an item that can single-handedly allow the Doctor to recreate the Time Lord race (granted he has gone back and forth on whether or not that would be a good thing or not, but it's still worrisome), but then functions as a massive CanonSue, being birthed fully formed with Time Lord intelligence and ActionGirl abilities. But the absolute dethroning moment was the end. Despite being, you know, dead, she regenerated... but for some reason, she kept her body and instantly went on an AndTheAdventureContinues.* @/{{Renita}}: ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Journey's End". So, many reasons, including the regeneration tease, the Clone Doctor, the Doctor's reaction to the Clone Doctor's rational decision to kill the Daleks when they were clearly beyond redemption, the Doctor fobbing Rose off with the Clone Doctor, Donna defeating the Daleks with Time Lord leet haxxor skillz, Donna being given a psychic lobotomy, the Earth being towed back whilst that "you should feel moved now" music plays in the background like a cue card and Davros being downgraded from MagnificentBastard to a Dalek pet just to sate the wrath of the FanDumb that objected to him ever overshadowing his creations despite being far more interesting than they are.** @/{{Loquacia}}: The realization of the complete bollocks that the Daleks would keep a "blow us up" button in the first place rather spoiled the episode, let alone that they'd keep it in the same room as their enemies.*** @/{{cavenglok}}: Well, it's not really a blow-up button... The Doctor says he's maximizing Dalekanium power feeds, which probably means that the power feeds were meant to be useful, like to provide more energy for their armor or something. Still pretty stupid that they'd keep it in the same room as the Doctor, though...** @/{{BlueButterfly}}: Donna's psychic lobotomy is the one I took issue with. She was the first new series companion not to be in love with the Doctor (Rose, Martha, Jack, Amy), whose life didn't revolve around him, who held her own and underwent a huge deal of CharacterDevelopment, gained confidence, got significantly less annoying and then saved all of existence with not just sudden Time Lord knowledge but also her own skills...and she will never remember any of it and is reverted back to who she was (which we see in later appearances), because drama. It felt like RTD was slapping me in the face for liking her so much.* @/{{Crazyrabbits}}: The "dramatic" gun scene in "The End Of Time, Pt 2". Was there really any doubt that The Doctor was going to shoot the computer maintaining the link? Not to mention that [[spoiler: the other supposed targets in question could both regenerate and shoot lightning bolts from their hands]]. It even underscores the power of the next scene, where [[spoiler:a pissed-off Master unloads all the electricity he has into Rassilon, driving him back into the gateway]].** @/{{polooglu}}: Ten saying "I don't want to go". Sure, tons of people think it's sad, but really considering the Doctor has done it ten times prior, and never complained as much, and got to wrap up all his loose ends (something I would be grateful to have done before I died), the fact that he still goes into his regeneration kicking and screaming just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.*** @/{{Sonikkuruzu}}: Ten also seemed to be holding on for as long as possible, almost as if he wanted his next self to be born in a crashing TARDIS. Partly sad though mostly selfish.*** @/{{Hyrin}}: I wasn't so bothered by Ten saying goodbye as I was by the fact that his regeneration somehow flipped the SelfDestructMechanism on the TARDIS. Several Doctors have regenerated inside the TARDIS without sending it out of control towards the nearest inhabited area, and it just felt like a cheap setup for Eleven to be the wacky one who laughs as his flaming ship plows towards some hapless Scottish garden.** Tropers/SwimToTheMoon: I just didn't like ''The End of Time, Part II'' as a whole. A shame because I really did enjoy the first part, but that's besides the point. The whole episode was 80 minutes of navel-gazing, RTD masturbating to his own characters and Ten being taken way out of character. However two moments did it in for me, they both were in the same scene: the first being RTD proving that he has obviously never seen ''The Five Doctors'' and having Rassilon shout things like "YOU DIE WITH ME DOCTOR" and "WE WILL ASCEND!" And "THE END WILL COME AT MY HAND!" and "IMWILL NOT DIE" in addition to portraying the time lords like suicide bombers. The second came from when he got into his whole, "IT IS NOT FAIR" rant. This was the pinnacle of all his angst and whining. Seriously, Doctor? You've regenerated ten times and merely becoming another person is only a problem now?! To top it all off, he [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking called Wilfred]] "not even remotely important". Wow. By this point, I was already waiting for RTD to be done pissing on this show's legacy.** {{Tropers/FezJez}}: After going to great lengths to establish in Journey's End and reassert in The End Of Time Part 1 that if Donna remembers her time with the Doctor then "her mind will burn and she will die", Russell T. Davies completely ignores it and instead has her unleash a Master-blasting booby trap and then wake up later perfectly alright with no other explanation than the Doctor's line "Do you really think I'd leave my best friend without a defence mechanism". Lame doesn't even begin to describe it.* @/{{LahmacunKebab}}: "Day of the Moon". Wait, so genetically engineered priests from the future have been secretly controlling humanity since prehistory just because they wanted space suits? Needlessly complicated doesn't even begin to cover it.* @/{{nostalgicfan}}: "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe". The underlying Christmas message quoted: "Men are weak". I have forgiven almost everything in Doctor Who, but I cannot forgive this episode. The plot holes are just huge and would take an entire page to fill, but I'll take one: The Doctor, a neigh immortal Time Lord, with memories of over ten lifetimes (which, when the Flesh tried to emulate, it was completely overwhelmed by without the Doctor keeping it together), was an unsuitable carrier for the [[OurSoulsAreDifferent Tree Lights]] because of his male organs. Fortunately, there was a woman around, so she could fly the tree-ship through the Time Vortex. No kudos was given to the young boy who had led them there (and come on, would any kid 'really' do that if they found a magic portal?). The message was vindicated as much as possible by the plot by having all the male characters act like gung-ho idiots, with only the women being the sensible ones. I just want to forget this episode ever existed, and I genuinely feel sorry for any young boy who watched this one.* James Picard: "Asylum of the Daleks". The entire episode relied on viewers eating up incredibly dumb stuff. The Daleks characterization is completely ignored, the much-hyped "Classic Daleks" only get cameos; the Amy and Rory divorce was stupid, offensive, and to finally twist the knife in the wound, it was filler! [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment It never came up again!]] Then there was the fact that even Oswin's voice was inconsistent, and really, it was just a horrible episode that needed either major rewrites, or just plain trashing. This was Moffat's lowest point for me.** pulsor93: Subverted by "The Snowmen", [[spoiler: which featured Clara Oswin Oswald.]] So much for it being filler.*** Telepresent: The episode wasn't filler, but the whole divorce business certainly was...** @/Dragonmouth: The big reveal of why Amy and Rory are getting a divorce. Amy says she left Rory because [[spoiler: she could no longer bear children after her experience at Demons Run and felt she was no longer worthy of him]]. First of all, Rory never showed any particularly strong interest in raising children. But what really makes this a Dethroning Moment is how horrifically it derailed Amy's character. I can understand why Amy might be angry at the Silence for what they did to her but I cannot see her being ashamed of her [[spoiler:inability to have children]]. She should have had an honest discussion about [[spoiler:her infertility]] with her husband but instead she ran away from him without telling him why, which is irrational and cruel. Amy was a smart, spirited, loving and mature woman, but now she seems to believe that a woman is worthless to her husband if she is [[spoiler:unable to bear children]].*** @/{{Hodor!}}: I was never a big fan of Amy and Rory's romance, as it was always "Amy doesn't appreciate Rory, then Rory has something awful happen to him, and now Amy can't live without him", but this episode takes the cake for me as far as her character. What a slap in the face to Amy's character and Rory's feeling. I mean she just up and leaves him with no explanation or warning. What pissed me off more is that they just get back together and its never brought up again. I mean hell when the whole divorce plot tumor was introduced I wanted to forget it too, but just because I want to act like it never happened doesn't mean Moffat can. * Kellor: "The Power of Three". As others have summed it up, it's like the writer came up with an interesting idea, wrote himself into a corner, and came up with a nonsense ending just to be done with it. We've got an alien race that the Time Lords apparently believed were just a myth (which seems like a phrase we've heard so much that's its become cliche). They want to stop humanity from colonizing space. This is a cool motivation that is just wasted on this episode- there's no sympathetic or even relatable face put on the Shakri, they're just another race of jerks. We don't even meet a real one, just a soapboxing hologram. They're advanced enough that they can time travel, build indestructible and scientifically inscrutable devices, and can hide in parallel dimensions. Yet the best plan they could come up with took a year to execute and only killed a third of humanity. Only the aliens from ''Plan 9'' were less competent. Had the cubes used biological, chemical, or even conventional weapons, Earth would have been screwed. One of the cubes sprouted a gun and flew around shooting- why didn't they all do that? And why did they need to study humanity for 47 minutes if they came from a future that was overrun by humans? Why did one of the cubes play the Chicken Dance? Why was the robot girl with the weird eyes sitting in that hospital all year? Why were the aliens (androids?) with the weird mouths kidnapping people from the hospital? Nothing made sense. Added to that, we've got Brian sitting in the Tardis watching a cube for two days straight without moving or anyone noticing (remember when Mickey was justifiably miffed about holding a lever in the Tardis for an hour?), we've got the Doctor being a real pain in the ass about sitting still for a few minutes, and we've got all of humanity bringing unknown alien things into their homes and businesses because humanity is just quirky like that. This didn't have characters playing with an IdiotBall, it had everyone playing in an Idiot Ball pit.** Valjean: The main redeeming factor to this plot was that no one really cared about its stupidity because it was pretty much a minor ExcusePlot for the Doctor to hang around on Earth with Amy and Rory, and the character-driven real plot of the episode was Amy and Rory adjusting to and settling into their non-world-saving normal routine of daily life and responsibility (because they did it while saving the world, but saving the world from a slow invasion that was taking months to get underway -- it crept up on them very naturally), realizing that they love the Doctor but can live without him, the Doctor being regular friends with Amy and Rory and slowly letting them go, and it all seemed to be moving towards a logical ending of them having one last crazy adventure before amicably retiring from companioning for good in a satisfying and optimistic manner. Then we got "The Angels Take Manhattan" instead. *thud thud thud*** {{Tropers/PentiumMMX2}}: This episode was easily my least favorite of the revived series, entirely because the main plot felt like a waste. To me, it actually had good build-up, and given how there was maybe 5 minutes left on the episode when the villain revealed what their plan was, I expected it to be a two-part episode. But, they resolve the plot by having the Doctor use the sonic screwdriver on one of the control panels for the alien ship, causing it to self-destruct and somehow resurrect everyone who died as a result of the cubes. I was very much annoyed by this; it felt like they wanted to make this a two-part episode, but were unable to, so they just hastily cobbled together an ending.* @/DarkHero9: "The Angels Take Manhattan", just all of it. But if you want a more specific reason for why this episode is the lowest point in the Moffat era, we'll begin with the ridiculousness of the plot that relies on a paradox that makes absolutely no sense after you think about it. A new rule that comes right out of nowhere that subverts the "Time can be rewritten" message that had existed throughout. Not only that, but Amy and Rory's departure is the worst companion departure ever on this show, simply because of how mean-spirited it is, as well as rendering the bulk of the plot of the episode completely pointless. It's the worst case of TheBadGuyWins that I have ever seen in any media. Especially since, in all honesty, their stories ended just fine in Series 6; there was absolutely no reason to do this episode other than because Moffat apparently disagreed. Not only that, but it doesn't match the tone of the rest of Series 7, especially where Amy and Rory's story was going. This episode sucks and deserves to be forgotten, it's such an absolute waste of two awesome characters in the worst way imaginable. ** @/DynamiteXI: This. The Amy arc should have ended with Amy accepting that she doesn't need to wait anymore, telling the Doctor that he can move on, but the episode forces the decision on her and only serves to give the Doctor angst. Plus, Moff seems to be sticking to the dogma of "fixed points in time," even though the Doctor actually HAS looked ahead to a BadFuture and still managed to change it (at least [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie twice]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited anyway]]). It's like the showrunners are trying to one-up each other with tragic ways to permanently dismiss companions. Except this time it felt exactly like when Peri was killed off in the classic series, yet got some kind of tacked-on EsotericHappyEnding. Anyway, this episode certainly killed Season 7's good vibes.** @/{{Highwind}} - "The Power of Three" would have been a superior ending to Amy and Rory, especially since the whole episode was about them finally settling down in a post-Doctor life. They could have simply said "No, you go on your own" to The Doctor, Doc could have been sad for a while, and then gotten the new companion. Instead, we get this abomination, which butchers Angel rules again (Angels are clearly moving and existing while being looked at, or with camera focus on them. The fact they didn't move even when you were looking at them was part of the creepiness), has several paradoxes, and as others have mentioned goes against Amy and Rory's plot arc as a whole.** @/{{Sedirex}}: And seriously, the Statue of goddamned Liberty? You really expect us to believe no one in all of Manhattan looked at it in the entire time it was taking a stroll?* @/{{SbenLives}}: "The Rings of Akhaten" contained a lot of stupid decisions, like the dreadful singing element, but this Troper's breaking point was how the planet-eating planet creature was destroyed. Seriously, that single leaf (one that led, somehow, to Clara being born) contained more stories for the thing to feed on than what the Doctor himself offered up?! One could argue the issue with what Clara ended up doing in "The Name of the Doctor," but it still grated. That whole resolution reeked of Clara becoming Moffat's CreatorsPet.** @/{{zoop}}: I never even made it to the end of the episode. First, I have a pet peeve about the Time Lords' "universal translation" sometimes working and sometimes not. It's all right if there's an explanation for it failing, like in The Satan Pit, but here it just... randomly fails. Second, the Doctor runs off, abandoning Clara on an alien planet for no reason whatsoever. But the final blow was when the Doctor was discussing the planet's religious beliefs. Clara asks him if it's true and he brushes it off with a ''very'' dismissive "Well, it's a nice story." Thank-you, Doctor, for dismissing every major religion in the world. Yeah, it's a nice story... which happens to be true for the people who believe in it. If you don't understand why I'm upset then imagine this: Suppose Neil Degrasse Tyson were to tell the Pope about the big bang. When he's done, the Pope just chuckles and says, "Well, that's a nice story." I think you can see where I'm coming from. I turned it off at that point.* @/NovusWulf: "Nightmare in Silver". The episode shows signs of running out of ideas when the whole Imperium is unashamedly ripped straight from Warhammer 40,000 - "Punisment Platoon" being a nice rewording of Penal Squad, the soldiers clearly dressed like classic Cadians and armed with Lasguns, and they even have a goddamned Emperor (who mercifully is NOT a corpse on a Golden Throne, thank god)! However, where I really take umbridge with this episode is what it did to the Cybermen. It's something Moffat and team have been doing for a while now - first the Daleks being changed from a Nazi Allegory to "they take love and replace it with hate" or some other BS, but now they've turned the Cybermen into a carbon copy of the Borg! Weren't the Borg Cybermen ripoffs? At any rate, the sheer amount of Plagiarism going on and the absolutely awful re-imaging of the Cybermen makes this episode my new low point. Oh, and those insufferable, terribly acting kids (who were to some credit at least out of the way for most of the running time). Good god, Moffat and friends, was this awful.* fluffything: I'll just flat-out say it. I did not like "The Name Of The Doctor". I felt it was overhyped, had an uninteresting villain (sorry, but The Great Intelligence does not deserve to be among the likes of The Master and/or Davros as an arch-nemesis for The Doctor), and ended on a predictable cliffhanger (Though, I will admit I do like the idea of Creator/JohnHurt as an alternate Doctor). But, my biggest problem is the reveal of who or what Clara is. How she is able to exist in many different timelines at once. The reveal? [[spoiler: It is due to her entering The Doctor's time-stream (IE: his life) in order to save him from the GI causing her life to split into over a million different versions]]. That's right, the whole thing was one big [[BecauseDestinySaysSo "Clara is destined to save The Doctor!"]] reveal. Or, to put it bluntly, they turned Clara into one big MarySue. What should've been a huge reveal for The Doctor is turned yet into another "Clara-centered" episode as she once again steals the spotlight. They could've had River, Strax, Jenny, and Vastra all joining Clara as she [[spoiler: enters The Doctor's time-stream to save him from the GI]] in a big epic moment of "Let's save The Doctor". But, nope, instead, we have to have Clara be miss PuritySue and sacrifice herself to save The Doctor all by herself because otherwise we couldn't reveal that this is how she exists in multiple time streams. What a load of bull. Give me back [[FanNickname "Dalek Oswin".]] At least she was more interesting and compelling of a character than little miss MarySue here.* @/{{ThatRandomGuy42}}: I'm not angry over "The Time of the Doctor", but it was rather disappointing in many aspects. The massive war on Trenzalore didn't look like much of a war until near the end, there were one too many things to keep track off (especially with the TimeSkip mechanic thrown in) and the solution to the Doctor's regeneration cycle was... too simple. Call me weird for thinking that, but [[spoiler: Clara begging the Time Lords to give him a new cycle and having it work seemed a bit too... easy. I was expecting a more complex method from Moffat.]] It's probably because that I wasn't the biggest fan of [[spoiler: Amy]] but her cameo right at the end did nothing for me other than remind me that she was his companion. Finally, the Doctor's regeneration happening in the blink of an eye felt a little off compared to the spectacular regenerations of the 8th, War, 9th and 10th Doctors. Some things worked in the episode, but it was far from perfect.* @/{{bazer63}} Listen. It started out as a decent episode with a couple of problems (like copying off other episodes, and a pointless subplot) but that last scene kicked it to where it deserved a place on this list. First off, we don't want a scene of the doctor's childhood. That's what we have fanfic for. It ruins the mystery of him. Second of all, that thing was obviously an alien and EVERYTHING up until that point was telling us this, The special effects, the sound, the script, the acting EVERYTHING. And finally, Clara influenced The Doctor's entire life and exists only for The Doctor. This was stupid the first time around for undermining The Doctor's ability to problem solve and being a stupid end to yet anpther stupid subplot, but doing it again reduced the Doctor to absolutly nothing. It's a bit like love and monsters: ok, even good until the final 5 minutes where the writer goes aout of it's way to reduce the episode to a pile of ****.

* @/{{Guardian978}}: "Kill the Moon." More like "Kill the Series." Where to begin? The annoying kid that gets dragged along for no reason? A decision by the entire planet getting overridden by Clara the Almighty? The hamfisted antiabortion metaphor where a single person with no say in the matter saves the day by ignoring the host's wishes? Or maybe the countless science errors that only the laziest of hack writers would fail to catch? For the sake of fuck, the DOCTOR doesn't know the age of the moon! Is in fact off by a factor of 45! Nor can mass appear out of nowhere, an egg does not change in mass as it develops. Nor did the idiot writers even to bother to Google the MASS of the moon, one of the biggest plot points in the episode! This was my moment of utter breakage with Moffat's pathetic excuse for Dr. Who, I will not watch another episode until he is GONE. And he can take Clara with him.

* @/{{Silverblade2}}: "In The Forest Of The Night" was as a whole lackluster but there's the moment that defies all logic. The Doctor and Clara find out that there's an upcoming solar flare that will burn the earth and it's too late to save the day. So Clara proposes the Doctor to "Save what you can". When they all go back to the Tardis, Clara confesses that it was a trick and in fact wants him to go alone. She states that the children wouldn't want to be separated from their parents, Danny wouldn't want to be separated from the children and for herself, she doesn't want to be the last human. What The Hell Clara? Why do you think you are entitled to refuse the chance for humanity to survive? Losing one's parent is, of course, a huge traumatism but it doesn't mean that the children don't want to live without them. Said children don't even know that the earth is going to burn! In short, Clara uncharacteristically decides to let the children die horribly without bothering to ask their opinion on the matter. The Doctor doesn't try to argue as if she was right. Even thought, I'm sure, the parents would beg the Doctor to save their children. It also negated the "I don't want to be the last of my kind" speech because she could have chosen to save herself, Danny and the children.* @/{{Asger}}: I had tolerated Clara for the most part. She was grating since Twelves debut and has steadily became less tolerable and more obnoxious (In tandem with the growth of how much she stole the spotlight from, you know the character the show is fucking named for) but the absolute nadir for me came in 'Dark Water.' Danny dies, literally didn't care at all, and in a dream sequence brought about by the Doctor she showed that she was willing to drug her 'friend' steal all his TARDIS keys and destroy them if he refused to bring Danny back to life, an event that the Doctor said would likely destroy all of spacetime. After this, the Doctor is a-okay with her and doesn't tell her to fuck off and never return for what must be one of the most vile acts of betrayal ever shown by a companion, fantasy or not. He doesn't even really scold her, he just turns into a goddamn doormat so she can have her way. What the actual fuck?** Noraneko: "Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?" Except she was legitimately about to destroy access to his TARDIS (aka, his ''wife'') and after she did so she claimed that she'd do it again in a heartbeat. Some have pointed out that it's something that a father would say to a daughter, but they're not father and child; Clara is supposed to be his best friend. If they actually had a fight rather than a scolding that lasted for thirty seconds, I could have dealt with it, but the whole thing is resolved after a few seconds and then they go on like it didn't happen... And this is ''after'' an entire episode of Clara being wishy-washy on whether or not she wanted to stay with the Doctor after he gave her an equally hard time. I have no idea how Clara became ''more'' selfish as the series went on but this took the cake for me and the betrayal quote just annoyed me, and as mentioned above it's more or less turning a manic and capricious Doctor into a doormat so that we know just how important Clara is.** legomaniac90: For me, it was the reveal that Missy is in fact The Master back yet again. Seriously, how? The guy plunged into a portal leading into the freaking Time War for crying out loud! And somehow he got out of it alive, healed himself of the HorrorHunger he'd been afflicted with, and regenerated into a woman? Sorry ''Doctor Who'', but you are really stretching the WillingSuspensionofDisbelief, and this is coming from a guy who was totally cool with everything else on this list.* @/{{wererat}}: I usually have an absurd level of tolerance for out of character moments, but the final scene of "death in heaven" nearly ruined the 12 doctor's character for me when [[spoiler: upon finding out that Galifrey wasn't where Missy/theMaster said it was, the doctor began beating on a TARDIS panel hard enough to cause sparks to fly out of it. let me repeat that, the doctor; a man who has been shown to attempt peaceful solutions when going up against the most omnicidal foes, is now beating a character that has been equated to a wife.]] I get that 12 is meant to be angrier than the previous few incarnations, but when your protagonist essentially commits [[spoiler: domestic abuse]] a moral event horizon has been crossed.